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Don’t call toxic wildfire smoke on the East Coast the ‘new normal’

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

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Wildfires push air quality in East Coast cities almost off the charts

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Self-assured destruction: The climate impacts of nuclear war

By Alan Robock, Owen Brian Toon | Nuclear Weapons